captured and now we're getting the official algerian government line from their mouth piece press. and they're tempering it down a bit saying four foreign hostages have been freed, british, irish, french, no americans mentioned and eyewitnesses say, however, there's some hostages, some captors have been killed in all of this. remember, what we have been reporting about is three to seven americans held, for the u.s. involvement, along with the drone, fast deployment special force teams are at ready, they're not in country yet and president obama has been speaking to algerian sources and speaking to the u.k. prime minister cameron as well as the french prime minister hollande and people in washington are asking for clarity, here in london, they are nervous and getting late word from the japanese government that they want a stop to this operation immediately. all of this, a response, according to the militants, that french-led assault in the neighboring mali against rebel militants there, and the french troops are on the ground now, staging an assault now, asking for the u.s. help. the u.s. is